I went to see Safari 3 times in the one week. So you will therefore appreciate the nostalgia that your parade of fine pictorials is bringing back to me and I think the best POSTERS in entries 25-45 are The Tartars, The Sharkfighters, Timbuktu, Tank Force Hannibal, China Doll One Million Years BC, Glory Bbrigade and Safari. However adults often laughed at him nicknaming him “Victor Manure”.
He had a grip and influence on us that I never saw again until I came across Bruce and Joel and you and Hitch. We kids loved Vic’s films and we were all members of an informal Mature fan club and “admiration society” and just as Chuck was our saintly Biblical hero and Audie and Rory were fighting the bad guys out west for us “Big Victor” as we called him was our down-to earth idol who had been sent among us simply to “save the world” in general. YOU though include it further on in your video and indeed have given us a great foreign language one for it.
TANK FORCE VICTOR MATURE MOVIE
He also made a joint UK/US movie in 1957 with Brit “blonde bombshell” Diana Dors called The Long Haul which the normally “all-inclusive” Work Horse has not been able to pick up in his table. Most if not all of Vic’s stand-alone movie will be unknown to modern audiences who might not even be aware of who Mature once was but boy did he churn them out at breathneck speed! – Safari, Interpol, The Sharkfighters, The Last Frointier, Escort West, Veils of Bagdad and Timbuktu among others. It was therefore not until the 1950s that Vic came into his own as THE prolific stand-alone star and action hero of adventure movies Victor Mature was a star in the forties of course but in prestige movies he normally played second fiddle to the likes of Betty Grable, Rita Hayworth, Ann Sheridan, Gene Tierney, Betty Hutton, Britian’s Anna neagle and Henry Fonda. but this is their critic/audience rating: 1953’s An Affair With A Stranger 54.50%, 1957’s Pickup Alley 57.50% and 1957’s The Long Haul 60.50% Could not find box office information on three Victor Mature movies….
Victor Mature was married five times….he one daughter.Ĩ. Victor Mature’s star on the Walk Of Fame is located at 6780 Hollywood Blvd.ħ. In Joel Hirschhorn’s Rating The Movie Stars book….he rated 410 stars….from Best to Worst…the good news is Victor Mature made the book…the bad news is he was rated as the 382nd best star.Ħ. He was on Okinawa when the A-bomb was dropped on Japan.ĥ.
His service carried him to the North Atlantic, including Normandy, the Mediterranean, Caribbean and many islands in the South Pacific. He served on the troop transport ship Admiral Mayo. Victor Mature was a petty officer in the Coast Guard during World War II. It was during a performance at Pasadena Community Playhouse that Mature was discovered and signed to a movie contract by Hal Roach.Ĥ. For three years Victor Mature lived in a tent in the backyard of Mrs Willigan, a mother of a fellow student, Catherine Lewis. Victor Mature briefly sold candy and operated a restaurant before moving to California to study and act at the Pasadena Community Playhouse.ģ. Victor John Mature was born in Louisville, Kentucky in 1913.Ģ.
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